metallifacture

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin metallum (“metal”) + facere, factum (“to make”).

Noun edit

metallifacture (usually uncountable, plural metallifactures)

The production and manufacture of metals.
- 1842, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge:
  Under the head of Metallifacture, we include the manufacture of hardware, brassware and jewelry.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “metallifacture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)